Post-puller.



a, HALSTEAD. POST FULLER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-12,1916.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917;

GRANT Ll-IALSTEAD, OF ORLATEDU, N331? Application file. September 1.9-1918.

To all evil/0m 2% may Caz-10am Be it knowi that L GRANT HALs rmn, acitizen of the United Slates, residing at Ollflihhk, in the county ofGarden and State of Nebraska, lave invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Post-Pullers, of which the :lollowing is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for pulling posts, andhas for one oi its objects to provide a simply consi'zrucl'ed devicewhereby fence posts or like (le /ices may he wicl'ulrawn from theground.

W'i'ch this and other objects in View, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claim; ancl in the drawingsillustrative of the PIQ-K GYIQd embodiment of ihe invention Figure 1 isside elevation of the i111 proved. clevice applied; i

Fig. 2 is a detached. perspective View of the standard orsfulcrui'n sup'iorting bracket;

F is'a detached. perspective View of the gripping portion of theimproved de vice;

Fig". i is a detached perspective XlBW of the fulcrum hiock of theimproved device.

Corresponding; and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indi caied in ail the views the drawings by the samereference characters.

The lIDl HOVQd device comprises a rela- QlX'GlYlOllg handi 10 ofsufiieieni; strength to withstand the strains to which it will besubjected, the handle may be 0 5 any required length, but for ordinaryuse will be about six feet long. Bearing upon the upper face and {hefront end of the handle or lever member is a bar formed with a bodyportion 11 a laterally directed portion 12 and a toe portion 13, thelatter terminating n a point lei-i The body portion 11 is pr0- videdwith apertures to receive clamp bolts 15 by which the body secured Lothe lever '10. Bearing upon the lower face of the lever 10 is aU-shaperl hanger or bracket formed with a lower portion 16 amlrsieiportions lT-'18, the latter having lateral oil-sets 19 at iheir outerencls perioratecl ive lihe bolts '15 by which the body 1 will inposifiion, the bolts having" i 2211i: hearing againsi; the

Specification of Letters Patent.

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inner faces of means the i in POSIiIlOYl ii enithe posh wortioie engegih16 of Eii resented 21 rflhi'i iVhlf hearing as ind" hraekeir, anti secs]hire devices By i his sit. Q

paci and pen esfni lever (lei i which may he enrol to pull km andlikedevices from the grouruh a 11-02" ion if pos'" epresentecconreniionaly aeii'; and the EZiOlliUl at 1N1 employing t 1eimproved-device the pointed terminal iiof the lever device engaged withthe post 555 and ihe '1 iloclz enqae'ed with the'gromicl as i in i Thenby exerting a downward force upon the ou'eer end of the lever 10 apowerful lifting force is applied to'the p05; wiihihe Prouml and if thei'iisii movement of ihe lever not suiiicieist to iiil-ly r move the postnigipin point 1%. may he again located at a ion point he operation repelbed. The lever Y19 and the hloci; 22 are ably of Wood whileizhe member1L iii-gee with its depending portion 12 nd. oe and the bracket, are ofzi'ietal.

Haring thus described ihe invention, whim, i claimeci new A device ofthe class described comprising a stock extended inco a handle at oneend, a bar -inc-hi.(ling a hocly portion engaging said stock at theother enci and a angled projection heariiig agaiiis the adjacent end ofthe stock, the proiection haw reduced extension iern hating in a Weilg'eshaped. point, a bracket having lat-- eral portions hearing against thesteel: and securedthereto by astening; (levics which likewise on thepest and,

inroue'h the har. incl :1 fulcriini block attached to the hocly of thebracket: I

In tililjlllfihf whereof I dill?! my signature.

